(Album Title) Cammell Laird Social Club (2002)
So… what do we know about Cammell Laird, and perhaps in particular, its Social Club?
The A to Z of HMHB
The A to Z of HMHB
(Album Title) Cammell Laird Social Club (2002)
So… what do we know about Cammell Laird, and perhaps in particular, its Social Club?
Cynical Uncle Charlie
The Ark Royal was built here. Great photograph of the ship under construction by Chambre Hardman.
25 March 2014
exxo
Mathematical safety assured in mid-March, which is more than you can say for New Mills, who haven’t won for nearly 4 months. Next month’s ‘End of the Tunnel’ mega-classico could be the last for a while.
26 March 2014
warden hodges
The feeder station for Lairdside (Green Lane). Spooky.
26 March 2014
EXXO
These threads can damage your health. Googling my way further into mid-life crisis just now, I was thinking about posting something on here about Laird’s shipyard’s key role in Birkenhead’s development in the 19th century. And then its undevelopment in the late 20th. That made me remember the name Graham Day – he was the Canadian fella who ran Cammell Laird in the 70s, who then was brought in to privatise and dismantle both British Shipbuilders and then British Leyland for Thatcher in the 80s. A figure of hate on Merseyside of course and rightly so, I came across an article about him that mentioned his son Mike – “leadership is a family tradition” it said, saying that the son, now 50, was a Canadian special forces general and now strategic director of the Canadian armed forces or something.
I remembered that the son was at our school in Birkenhead in the 70s when his dad was busy laying off half the working population of the town. A dull sporty lad of moderate brains who seemed to enjoy square-bashing and shooting with the school cadets on Thursday afternoons (when I did ‘community service’ instead). Googling further, a muck-raking article from the Canadian press revealed that General Mike got paid more in house moving allowances a few years ago, just for moving across Ottawa, than I have earned in aggregate total in the last several years. It’s not the sort of mid-life crisis where I’m feeling jealous or bitter about ‘successful’ contemporaries, but finding out about their establishment careers just makes me feel totally lost somehow. I could do that. But I don’t really want to.
27 March 2014
EXXo
I see tonight’s final End of the Tunnel Mega Classico was postponed till Wednesday. New Mills may be handy for the hills but their pitch has worse drainage than Paul Daniels’ new conservatory.
Rumours that Cammell Laird FC may be reborn once again down in the West Cheshire League next season, but hard to get any concrete info.
7 April 2014
This leaden paul
Interesting message of support for TRFC from the Cammell Laird Twitter feed over the weekend; “Routing(sic) for you under new management!” Not much chance of their cricket team (late of the Merseyside Competition in the 1970s) making a comeback though.
27 October 2014
EXXO
Been away but can’t believe nobody’s commented on this week’s wonderful news for Birkenhead.
The jokes will have already started about (see picture in the story) ‘Name of Vessel’, and I surely won’t be the first to suggest ‘Palios’, a nice classical-sounding name which would remind the crew that they are being taken further & further down to latitudes never previously explored.
17 October 2015
EXXO
I missed this in the Wirral Globe in January, but googling fondly (of course) about Old Birks just now I noticed that the First Sea Lord is the son of a fella who worked for Lairds his whole life. Which doesn’t do any them harm.
http://www.wirralglobe.co.uk/news/8292931.__44m_joy_for_Cammell_Laird/
17 May 2016
Cream cheese and chives
The highlight of my admittedly under achieving amateur football career was my Saturday afternoon Lancashire and Cheshire and league outfit being drawn against Cammell Laird(a team from the higher leagues) in a cup competition.Six nil down by half time, I came on and the score did not change. What might have been if I had started?
1 November 2017
CHARLES EXFORD
BAS webcam live now, launch at high tide (about twenty past noon).
https://www.bas.ac.uk/media/creative-services/live/
14 July 2018
EXXO
Very moving indeed, especially the first speech on the history and future of the yard and its meaning for Birkenhead and Wirral. As she berthed at the end of the live webcam feed, John Laird’s grave was briefly in shot, 190 years after he started building ships on the same site.
14 July 2018
EXXO
Most of you will be aware there’s a massive game in the Manchester area tomorrow/today (Wednesday)
https://twitter.com/cammelllairdfc?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Any Biscuiteers in the area have surely got to turn up at Moss Lane to support a side who get their place in a final, and their biggest game in years, due to the opposition fielding an ineligible player (registered 3 hours too late).
23 April 2019
Alice van der meer
Will the Lairds be tickled?
23 April 2019
warden Hodges
Good luck Lairds.
Biggest game since Vase semi v Nantwich at the old Jackson Ave. 2006.
24 April 2019
EXXO
Dabbers had their foot down on the angst switch throughout, as expected. Intense, no compromise, so the 5-2 victory was about par, but the match stats say Lairds done themselves more than proud.
One of Dabbers’ goals scored by Joe Malkin, son of Tranmere’s Chris Malkin (scored Wembley play-off winner 1991 of course) , now a physio in Heswall – saw him round my mum’s 80-y-o neighbour’s house the other week.
24 April 2019